…Decries Sectional Interest In Varsity Education

…Says Undergraduates Bearing Unnecessary Brunt

ABUJA- The Federal Government has began moves to bring all unions within the university system under one single entity, Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission NUC, Professor Abubakar Rasheed has disclosed.

According to him, the polarization of the university system, where each of the Union comes up with their individual demands to the Federal Government was constituting bottlenecks for government to accede to their demands.

Rasheed also attributed the phenomenon to why university education in Nigeria can’t match up to their peers abroad, academically.

He made the disclosure while speaking as special guest at the 2nd Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU in Abuja, on Monday.

According to him, talks were on to convince the leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress to invite all the various unions to a round table, to see reasons why they needed to come under one umbrella.

Among the unions expected to key into the new proposal includes the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, Non Academic Staff Union of Universities NASU, the National Association of Academic Technologists NAAT and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities SSANU.

He argued that there was need for the unions to enter into negotiations with the government with one accord, rather than a segmented approach.

While appealing to the conscience of the unions, the NUC Scribe said it is regrettable that most times government and individual unions lock horns negotiating for better welfare packages for the staff at the detriment of the students.

He said, “No university in the world can operate effectively insolation, it is frustrating that the University system in Nigeria have been polarized by various unions, you have NAAT, ASUU, SSANU all negotiating for different things.

” Most times, while one group is negotiating with government, others are warning up for strike unless their demands are met”.

Rasheed also disclosed that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has secured the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to dispatch visitation panels to all public universities in Nigeria.

He explained that the need arose following the ugly incidents that trailed the University of Lagos, where the Pro-Chancellor, Wale Babalakin-led Governing Council ordered the sack of the former Vice Chancellor, Oluwatoyin Ogundipe.

He said the respective panels which will soon be inaugurated are expected to tour the universities and bring back a ten year report, in two separate batches of five years each.

Also, following the resignation of Wale Babalakin as Chairman of the universities renegotiation committee, the Federal Government has reconstituted an eight man Committee to harmonise and finalise existing agreements between government and the unions.

The NUC scribe said letters of appointment will be handed to the appointees by Tuesday or Wednesday this week.

Recall that while issues of 2009 Joint renegotiated agreement and NEEDS Assessment programme is yet to be resolved in most of the public universities, the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government have been engaged in a battle of wits over the controversial Integrated Personnel Payroll and Information System IPPIS, even before the lockdown necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic broke out globally.

On the other hand, SSANU, NASU have criticized the federal government for its alleged recalcitrance in implementing Earned Allowances and other special welfare packages for its teaming members.

https://www.independent.ng/strike-fg-mulls-unification-of-ASUU-ssanu-nasu/

They should just save the future of the youngs ones.

Foolish people

Mr Abubakar Rasheed think that cutting off the head is the solution to headache.

ASUU, SSANU & JAC plays different roles in the university, and this helps to achieve the successful running of academic & non-academic activities.

If you want to merge them, resolve their individual agitations first.

This is going to be another avenue for future industrial actions(strike). From my little experience in the academic community,the NASU people don't give much regards to the ASUU members. They only respect ASUU members based on the fact that their promotions depend on their appraisals. It going to be an Herculean task to have all the unions under one umbrella.

Instead of using divide and rule strategy they want to unify them


But what do I know..



Salary earners I dey sell loan oh

See as that man face squeeze.... Wahala for who take assu serious...

Damnnn niggarrrr
Isoright.....

That plan to unify them is dead on arrival
ASUU will not accept

ASUU's greediness and pride will never allow them to them to team up with other Unions as the case may be.

Y

Let someone tell fg plenty talk no dey full basket

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
– Nelson Mandela

You'll rarely see a politician's child schooling a public institution, how do you expect them to understand the struggles that lie in passing through these institutions?
Until the Senate passes a Law mandating the Minister of Education's wards must pass through a Nigerian university, things won't be better

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Foolish plans from a foolish government .

cool
Let's watch them and see

Ritual?
Check out last video of Zimbabwean billionaire before he died


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMhWQs1BA1A

This world is not ordinary guys

My hostel Landlord refreshing every 2 minutes to see if ASUU have finally called off the strike.



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do we still av FG in Nigeria?

Emmamay10:
This is going to be another avenue for future industrial actions(strike). From my little experience in the academic community,the NASU people don't give much regards to the ASUU members. They only respect ASUU members based on the fact that their promotions depend on their appraisals. It going to be an Herculean task to have all the unions under one umbrella.

I swear ..I don't know why it's so hard for the Government to sort out their demands ...The money dey nah ...Abacha alert they come in steady ..it can offset all this ..but they rather loot and loot and loot and reloot ....

GreatInRock:
They should just save the future of the youngs ones.

Which future abeg. People way graduate get Future ? Talk more of people way still de come

can never work

Dead on arrival

Nigeria is not working @all

FG = Failed Government.

Nonsense !


If money no dey why not cut the cost of governance first ?


Borrowing up and down nothing to show for it

This people are quick to think when an issue does not involve them

By the time this government is through with Nigerians, every sensible thing in their country will have been bastardised.

Nah eh! No qualms
This is so unsophisticated

All undergraduate should kukuma
Go nd learn trade or better still
Start taking mushin weed nd start up
A B0mbing career

This will be a nice move if all union in the Apex learning environment can come as one.


Government can attend to a body with no fear that other bodies will come up with their own demands.

But selfish interest, I will say will not let the bodies come as one.

Feds, pay police

Too bad

This greedy ASUU should be proscribed abeg! So that students can go back to school.

Lmao...

The administration and doings...

How can you just merge unions?